Porteus-v1.0-rc1-x86 ready for testing
Posted: 09 May 2011, 14:31
The penultimate 32bit rc1 release before our official release is now ready for testing.
Please test thoroughly so we can sort out the last remaining bugs before v1. Suggestions are welcome and if you feel like taking a crack at some of the still existing bugs you will be endowed with magical powers and receive your weight in gold coin.
Kernel headers exist separately on server for now. Will include in final release.
If someone could create the nvidia driver and let me know i will put it on the server.
Repo:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/i486/testing/
Changelog:
- kernel 2.6.38.5
- userland bumped to Slackware-13.37
- KDE-3.5.12 (Trinity)
- LXDE from GIT by ponce compiled on Slack 13.37
- Kernel support for older i486 processors
Known (still existing) bugs
- Shutdown from kdm screen requires you to press enter
- wicd tray icon not loading in lxde (shouldn't be difficult to fix)
- Login as guest and su from terminal, then start mc is garbled.
Other - smaller changes:
- updated syslinux to version 4.0.4 (pxelinux.0 must be placed in /boot folder and not /boot/pxelinux.cfg)
- Cleaned up boot and porteus folders with subfolders docs & tools which contains Fixmbr.exe, UAC.exe, memtest and /dos loader.
- added function to win_start_here.hta which disables UAC (Blaze's job)
- updated linuxrc and some other stuff inside initrd (fanthom)
- fixed dhcpcd long delay for IP in rc.inet1 (thanks to crashman for bug report)
- rc.M now creates 10 loops at boot instead of one (Rava request), also moves passwd.xzm automatically to /porteus/modules when is writable (francoise suggestion)
- /usr/local/bin/man searches netowork when man page is not found in Porteus (82issa and lo-n-behold job)
- changes-time.sh strips module from *.cache files which are causing aufs hang
- activate script add one free module after insertion (it doesn't do anything when free loops are available)
- nouveau is blacklisted by default again as people are having troubles with compilation of nvidia binary driver
- USB HID is compiled into kernel (thanks to bong for bug report)
- udisk mounts FAT and NFTS without 'showexec' flag (all files are executable: needed for porteus installation scripts)
- hibernation works ok after upgrading to 2.6.38.5 (requires further testing)
- added 'Porteus' string to firefox user agent
- Added save-changes script (from console)
- Added GUI for changing save.dat size, creating new one or attempted corruption recovery
- many, many, many other changes.....
To come for rc2 or final:
1. Bundle package manager
Not a full package manager but enough to get users to put together their preferred applications from within Porteus. If anyone would like to assist me with this it would be welcome.
2. Porteus repo with 100% working modules. I would ask xzm team to begin preparing modules that adhere to the Porteus standard. Same as slackware but has /var/log/packages file mention CATEGORY:. See the existing repo on server for categories. Please have dependencies as separate modules which will be used in library category.
Please enjoy and report all bugs as usual.
Regards,
The Porteus Team
Please test thoroughly so we can sort out the last remaining bugs before v1. Suggestions are welcome and if you feel like taking a crack at some of the still existing bugs you will be endowed with magical powers and receive your weight in gold coin.
Kernel headers exist separately on server for now. Will include in final release.
If someone could create the nvidia driver and let me know i will put it on the server.
Repo:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/i486/testing/
Changelog:
- kernel 2.6.38.5
- userland bumped to Slackware-13.37
- KDE-3.5.12 (Trinity)
- LXDE from GIT by ponce compiled on Slack 13.37
- Kernel support for older i486 processors
Known (still existing) bugs
- Shutdown from kdm screen requires you to press enter
- wicd tray icon not loading in lxde (shouldn't be difficult to fix)
- Login as guest and su from terminal, then start mc is garbled.
Other - smaller changes:
- updated syslinux to version 4.0.4 (pxelinux.0 must be placed in /boot folder and not /boot/pxelinux.cfg)
- Cleaned up boot and porteus folders with subfolders docs & tools which contains Fixmbr.exe, UAC.exe, memtest and /dos loader.
- added function to win_start_here.hta which disables UAC (Blaze's job)
- updated linuxrc and some other stuff inside initrd (fanthom)
- fixed dhcpcd long delay for IP in rc.inet1 (thanks to crashman for bug report)
- rc.M now creates 10 loops at boot instead of one (Rava request), also moves passwd.xzm automatically to /porteus/modules when is writable (francoise suggestion)
- /usr/local/bin/man searches netowork when man page is not found in Porteus (82issa and lo-n-behold job)
- changes-time.sh strips module from *.cache files which are causing aufs hang
- activate script add one free module after insertion (it doesn't do anything when free loops are available)
- nouveau is blacklisted by default again as people are having troubles with compilation of nvidia binary driver
- USB HID is compiled into kernel (thanks to bong for bug report)
- udisk mounts FAT and NFTS without 'showexec' flag (all files are executable: needed for porteus installation scripts)
- hibernation works ok after upgrading to 2.6.38.5 (requires further testing)
- added 'Porteus' string to firefox user agent
- Added save-changes script (from console)
- Added GUI for changing save.dat size, creating new one or attempted corruption recovery
- many, many, many other changes.....
To come for rc2 or final:
1. Bundle package manager
Not a full package manager but enough to get users to put together their preferred applications from within Porteus. If anyone would like to assist me with this it would be welcome.
2. Porteus repo with 100% working modules. I would ask xzm team to begin preparing modules that adhere to the Porteus standard. Same as slackware but has /var/log/packages file mention CATEGORY:. See the existing repo on server for categories. Please have dependencies as separate modules which will be used in library category.
Please enjoy and report all bugs as usual.
Regards,
The Porteus Team